| The Uffculme Wills and Inventories, 16th to 18th Centuries Contributor(s): Wyatt, Peter (Editor), Stanes, Robin (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0901853402 ISBN-13: 9780901853400 Publisher: Devon & Cornwall Record Society OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) - History | Europe - Great Britain - Stuart Era (1603-1714) - History | Europe - Great Britain - Georgian Era (1714-1837) |
| Series: Devon and Cornwall Record Society |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 9" (1.20 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 15th Century - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 17th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume for 1997 contains transcriptions of all the 266 probate inventories that could be traced for the parish of Uffculme, Devon, together with abstracts of the accompanying wills and administrations which have survived. Added to these are 322 further abstracts of wills and administrations under the Salisbury jurisdiction (and now housed at the Wiltshire Record Office in Trowbridge) which have no surviving inventories. These further wills and administrations extend to the end of the year 1800 (with a few in the Dean of Salisbury's list beyond that date). Where possible, notes are included on related burial and marriage entries taken from the Parish Registers. The survivalrate of probate inventories for Devon is poor, as so many perished with the wills when the Exeter Probate Registry was destroyed in the Blitz in 1942. The Uffculme ones escaped because Uffculme was a Peculiar Parish in the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Salisbury and were kept in Salisbury during the war. The publication of this volume will give an insight into the sort of information the historian may gain from this type of document as well as providing aspects of life in Uffculme and farming and woollen cloth-making |
